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"Nursing Home Performance - What's Your Thoughts?" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-11-27 14:25:14

My grandmother was in the Iroquois Nursing Home in Jamesville and I must say they were GREAT. The always had different events for the residents and the nursing staff was always very friendly. She was there for almost 10 years before she passed away a couple of years ago and they were like family. I happened to see one of my grandmothers care givers in a hold on a couple of weeks ago and she comfort took the time to stop say hello and to overlap another funny story about my grandmother. They were great there and it really is to bad that all of our nursing home are not like that. It is sad when our love one can no longer take care of themselves and in some cases like ours we were not able to help her at home. I remember the day that my grandmother was admitted to the nursing home she had mixed feeling but at the same time knew that it was the best. The following week she her spirts were so high and she was having so much fun she had found some knew friends to play bingo with every week and started to learn how to make different crafts. I would like to say thank you to the staff at Irquiois. My preserve was at Vivian Teal Howard from July 26 through August 30th. Once he was given his roommates methodone by mistake and they tried to cover it up. I have his records to prove it. He fell out of bed on the 30th of August when they were changing him at 6:45 AM. He had a large bump on his head and a large gash on his arm. They lied how it happened and at 10:30 AM whern I arrived to pick him up to act him to his sons opening Senior football game. I realized he was not right and demanded that he had to go to the hospital. It took 1 hour to get them to call an ambulance because "they had to get the cover work create from raw material". I told them I would call 911 myself if they did not do so now. He died at 12:46AM on September 1st because of a massive touch. I strongly advise that whoever oversees this facility check for discrepancies in records. The methodone incident in my husbands inspect was changed. You can see how they glued over the original report. Other reports were falsified. During the day the care was great at Vivian Teal. It was at night that my husband had problems. The day staff the PT and OT departments were outstanding. I direct the administration responsible. I strongly feel they cut corners at night and it cost my preserve his early passing. This is directed to Julie america. I obtained my CNA license while enrolled in nursing school. I discovered that nursing was not suited for my personality so I went on for my BS and became a chemist instead. While in educate I worked at James Square the Syracuse Home. St. Camillus and the Jewish domiciliate as a CNA for an agency. My conclusions are that CNAs in general are people that either have a passion for caring (hands on care) for populate or those that could not make a living doing anything else. Most have poor language skills many (and I mean many) have drug alcohol and nicotine addictions. One evening I sat in a dwell in which these women were discussing what types of antihistamines to furnish their children to "knock them out" so that they could enjoy smoking crack and pot with friends. Most nursing homes have 2 aids to care for 20-30 of your grandparents every night. This is NOT the proper be of staff when an entire floor is engrossed in bouts of virus (meaning vomitting). My suggestion to anyone that has to place a loved one in any nursing home.. visit daily. Be a pain in the adjoin to the charge nurses. (this is another area which is bunco staffed most of the time) Be observent take notes. Take antibacterial wipes and clean the bathrooms furnature walls. At St. Camillus (or anywhere else) if the patient vomits it is the aids job to wipe up the "chunks" and then some person will come up with a lay and mop and swipe around for the rest. NOT the best of cleaning. The beat alternative is to stay at home as long as possible with a visiting nurse - or do it yourself. Hope this helps. My mom suffered a massive touch in Aug of 06. Since then she has been in St. Joseph's nursing home in Utica. My family had never had to deal with a nursing domiciliate prior to this happening. I have gained a lot of respect for this specific nursing home. Mom can be a handful as she has lost the use of her right side and suffers from aphasia so her communication isn't that great. 98% of those who deal with her are sweet caring respectful individuals. Not to say we haven't had a few issues since her placement but after having 4or 5 family members call the situation was always rectified. I would suggest anyone with a loved one in a nursing home to visit as often as possible at different times. I be in Syracuse and get to Utica once or twice a week. My sister lives in Utica and she stops in almost daily. They know us and we know them. I think any nursing home situation is going to have issues but St. Joes in Utica has helped alter an awful situation a little easier to live with. I thank them. A few comments about my experiences with local nursing homes. Julie. If possible get your uncle out of St. Camillus. approve in 2001 my father had a mild stroke. After a short be at St. Josephs Hospital we had to make that decision as to what nursing home he would go to for rehab. Not knowing anything about this. I made the choice to get him into St. Camillus. Based on what I had heard about this facility it seemed like a great place with above average compassionate. The back up I walked through the doors with my create in a go around chair. I knew there was a problem. The smell of urine ammonia and other unknown odors were heavily prevalant anywhere in the building other than the reception area. Once we got to his room more bad vibes were happening. It looked like an army barrack from WWII. Depressing dark and not as clean as you'd think a patients room should be. From there it was all down hill. In the 4 days he was there before I personally removed him he did not get 15 minutes of physical therapy. He was never clean when I got there. He was not fed on a regular plan and was left in his dwell alone for hours at a measure with no checks by the staff. When I told the administration that I would be bringing him to another facility they told me I couldn't remove him. I proved them do by and got him into Birchwood where he was treated like gold and recovered nicely from the stroke. On a scale of 1 to 10. I would rate St. Camillus a -5A few years later my create had knee replacement surgery. Knowing now what the system was like we chose Birchwood again. His care there was impeccable and the physical therapy dept was the best I had seen and this was after making visits to several other facilities in CNY. My create was approve on his feet and back to normal in less than 3 weeks. He hasn't had one problem with that knee replacement and the ascribe goes to the Birchwood cater. Round 2 was different. The following year he had a be knee replacement on the other leg. When we found out that Birchwood had no rooms available we had to decide from a list of other facilities. Seeing how St. Josephs was affiliated with Loretto we chose that facility to rehab his knee replacement. Once again the gloom and doom situation hit us the minute we walked through the doors. The kitchen facility was filthy we witnessed food service workers wiping the sweat from their heads with the coat gloves on and then picking up pieces of cake and other food to put it on the patients dishes. Patients in the hallways covered in urine food and other dirt. Once again,the rooms were dismal at best. A dresser that looked like it was pulled from a dumpster and an ols hospital bed that was most likely outdated. Nothing else in the rooms to brighten up the spirits of a short term rehab patient. That's the one thing Birchwood always had. A bright atmosphere with a lot of smiling people pictures on the walls nice furniture etc.! Needless to say. I pulled my create out of Loretto after 3 days when they did absolutely nothing with his knee. The first few days after surgery are the most important to get the proper therapy and be the leg so it heals properly. I took my father home and did his therapy there until Birchwood had a room but the alter was already done by Loretto not doing their job. The story doesn't end there. Last fall 10 - 06 my create banged his knee pretty hard and even though there was nothing broken,his confidence was lost in his ability to go. Ring up short term rehab again ! Same scenario..... Birchwood had no rooms so we took him to "The Crossing" in Minoa. It seemed like a nice displace and the staff was great at admission measure. The first day I arrived to tour my father he was drooling all over himself while sitting in a wheelchair. The nurse said he was in pain so they shot him up with some strong narcotic which turned him into a lump of flesh and bone. I told them that my father had no pain and was very aggressive in the therapy room yet they did nothing for him the first 5 days he was there. Each day they said he was in pain and shot him up with medication. While at therapy,if my father even mentioned that his knee was sore they shot him up and brought him back to his room which he shared with a severely ill gentleman in his 90's. It seemed that there was no separation of short term rehab patients long term and terminal patients. Again not a good thing for bunco call rehab patient to witness and endure. Although the decor and surroundings were nice the place was a joke. It almost took a lawsuit to get my father out of their. They wouldn't let me act him until I proved to them that I was his health care proxy. They were like the Gestapo ! I took my father home and continued his therapy there where he was back walking with his cane in two days once the drugs wore off. alter now my father is in Iroquois Nursing home for yet another short term rehab save. Although the building is very nice and the staff who actually takes care of the patients are great the administration social workers and Doctor are low on the list in their fields. We've been repeatedly lied to since a develop meeting on Nov 20th where it was agreed that my father would be taken off of the insulin they were giving him. He never used insulin at domiciliate. It was always oral medication which we controlled his very mild diabetes with. The charge nurses and administration agrred that day to remove the insulin from his menu of medications. Behind our backs they continued to give him shot after shot which made my father ill. They tried to blame it on the food but I had been through this once before when he was given insulin in the hospital. The populate at Iroquois do not believe family members or myself (his health care proxy) when we tell anything about my fathers medical history and what insulin does to him. All they did was pass the buck from one administrator to another until finally they passed it to the doctor. Dr. Charles Lockwood. This guy wouldn't make a good vet at the SPCA. He refused to eliminate the insulin from my fathers daily meds and sarcastically made reference to my vast knowledge of care for while I was talking with him on the phone. He also hung up on me when I told him he had to eliminate the insulin based on NYS Health compassionate proxy law. I called back and his nurse said he had nothing to say to me. Back at Iroquois the continue nurses kept on lying and passing the buck. This morning we found that they were still giving my create the insulin. We asked why and the nurse said it was out of her hands and that we'd have to talk to the head administrator in the morning. Total run around and lack of respect for the patient and the laws of New York. All involved will be dealt with legally. If anyone else has any information pertaining to Iroquois Nursing home and their inability to follow the laws please respond. Thanks God my father is coming home this coming Thursday even though his occupational and physical therapy treatments there were sub par and didn't prepare him to come home. He'll go to out patient therapy after he gets domiciliate. I never wanted to believe the horror stories I heard about these nursing homes but after having experienced several of them in recent years all I can says is "Caveat Emptor" Let the buyer beware !! TO Fret Junkey... If anyone else has any information pertaining to Iroquois Nursing home and their inability to follow the laws please respond. I had a family member in Iroquois a couple of years ago and I undergo a close friend who father is there now and I must say I undergo no idea why you are having such problems... I never had any issues with them and my friend said that she has not either. The nurse's (including the head nurse) are only following Doctors orders and you create's doctor should know his history and I may be mistaken but I do not think the nurse can give certain drug to a patients with out a doctors order. I myself undergo a mild case of diabetes and up to 2 month ago have only taken oral meds now I undergo to take insulin and at first it would make me feel egest. I am truly sorry that your create has had so many problems I can not say anything about the other nursing home that you mention object for Birchwood which I agree with you they are great there. I do hope that you opened your mouth for the patients in those nursing home in which you saw for yourself were sitting in urine and dirt so that maybe something would be done for them. Hope all turns out well for your dad. SORRY. Like I mentioned before the CNA's and the other workers at Iroquois are great. My problem was with the charge nurses administration social service worker (who I found out is no longer with them) and the doctor. By the way. I made a mistake. It's Dr. Richard Lockwood and not Charles Lockwood. Got a little confused with the former SU Lacrosse player. Yesterday we spoke to some top officials at the NYS health dept and from the information that they put in front of us the people who've been giving us trouble at Iroquois are dead wrong. After the conversation with the health dept we also found that St. Josephs hospital sent a list of what they diagnosed my father with to Iroquois. On that enumerate were conditions that were NOT show. Come to find out the hospital gets paid (as does the nursing homes) for each diagnosis that they come up with. This led the adulterate at Iroquois to administer drugs to my father for conditions that he did not have. We'd been trying to explain this to the staff and adulterate but they treated us like we were little kids. Totally uninterested in what we had to say about my fathers medical history. Now for the second time in two weeks they had to cancel my fathers dentist appointment because they forgot to take him off of the daub thinners soon enough. These populate are incompetent to say the least. I have to give ascribe to the CNA's and other staff for putting up with these people the way they do. They all seem to know that there's some bad stuff happening at Iroquois but their jobs would be in jeopardy if they spoke out. SID. I agree.. There's no excuse for being bunco staffed in this town. It seems that every time I walk in the door at Iroquois there are populate filling applications and potential CNA/nurses being interviewed. furnish line is the money ! Someone is getting rich while many of these seniors are getting sub par care. They should also pay a few more dollars on the food function. It's horrendous ! When my father was admitted to Iroquois on 11-07-07 he had a problem with wetting himself due to the dimensia that the urinary track infection brought on. Although I totally believe what you said about the women who was sitting in a wet diaper for extended periods whenever my father had an accident they were on him immediately when he rang for them. They'd bring him right down and shower him. It impressed me as I've seen the other side of the spectrum at other facilities. Everything stated above about Iroquois Nursing home is true... They undergo wonderful and caring staff. The true problem is in administration. This once "great" nursing home is in a state of decline. While it would appear that everything is bright and shiny in this case it is very true that everything that glitters is not gold. This is a not-for-profit organization and as such gains some of it's money through donations as well as through medicare and medicaid reimbursment through therapies. This money should be reinvested into new equipment and continuing education of staff so that they can continue to take care of the residents of the facility in the beat way possible. However this is not the case. This money is instead invested in new furniture for comman areas as well as pictures and other non-necessaties so as to provide those that go to tour with the impression of a wonderful place. The staff is constantly shorthanded and underpayed when compared to other local nursing homes.. instead of investing the "profits" gained in their current employees and in gaining additional employees they determined that it would be more cost efficent to have aides and nurses work double shifts and destroy them out. Again the quality of care at Iroquois Nursing home is above add up in the area but this will not be the case much longer if things are allowed to continue on this path. I agree with jane doe until the board of directors is made aware of this situation it ordain only continue to change state and that will leave one less displace for our loved ones to spend their remaining days or to rehab from injury. There are a lot of changes going on in Iroquois and I heard that as soon as the nursing director left a few months ago everything started going downhill. She was very supportive of the staff there but now it's all about the money,as Unknown just said. The residents are not allowed to have a t v except in their rooms and during the holidays no one was even allowed to carry a plate of cookies to their loved ones. The rule still stands. My friend said she was told to leave them in the staff cafeteria where "everyone could enjoy them." Is there a new law that doesn't accept food to be brought to their family members in nursing homes? If so please post a link to it on this blog so others ordain know about it. I heard that the employees want a union in there. I don't know if it's true but if it is maybe that is just what it will take to get some changes made. If the workers are paid better they can get more cater and that means better care for the patients.

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"South Dakota Has Some of the Lousiest Nursing Homes" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-03-26 01:40:43

I'm sure Todd will be proud of this news from : A recent inform on the quality of nursing homes in this country shows two South Dakota homes receiving a poor mark. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services listed the Aberdeen Healthcare Center in Aberdeen and the Bennett County Hospital and Nursing Home in Martin as two of the nation's poorest performing nursing homes. I anticipate South Dakota really is. | | | | | | | Maybe if populate would be at the real problem. the ratio of patients to nurses,then nursing homes would not be failing as bad as they are. 30 patients to 1 nurse. and those patients are going to get quality care? If administration would stop concentrating on keeping their budgets as low as possible so they can get their yearly bonuses. nursing homes would have what they need to take care of the patients!Nursing homes are being set up for failure. and the nurses are fighting approve! I evaluate you're right. Anonymous. My mother is a care for in a nursing domiciliate in another state. While some of the employees where she works are the kind that are just there for a paycheck and that's it most of them really compassionate about the patients. But Mom tells me what you said: they are fantastically under-staffed.. yet there always seems to be money to act upper managment cushy. Enter your telecommunicate communicate (NO SPAMMING)

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"Site to list bad nursing homes" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-01-08 00:13:11

Baumbach and Rager Media praised in The Los Angeles Times; more Christmas walk picsIt's a tough job but someone has to do itEdwards Declares WarRoot for the BuckeyesWhat's working what's notWhat "Change" MeansInvevitable HypeWill Lewis. Anderson be back?LeBron does it (again)2008 First go PicksTemple (DiMichiele) Showed HeartWhen is the Cleveland ride show?Yeah the Brownies are out. But 10 WINS is 10 freakin' wingsGolden Globes gesticulate The White FlagBCS Championship Game: The Infamous DVDPlayer of the Game: boys basketballDelicious Downtown Dining at Lockview WASHINGTON: Fifty-four nursing homes across the country are being told by the government that they are among the worst in their states in an effort to goad them into improving patient compassionate. Lawmakers and advocacy groups have been pushing the furnish administration to alter it easier for consumers to determine poorly performing nursing homes. They complain that too many facilities get cited for serious deficiencies but don't make adequate improvements or do so only temporarily. The administration agreed and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will list the homes today on its Web site. No Ohio facilities be on the list according to an go copy obtained by the Associated touch. ''Very very poor quality nursing homes do not be to be left untouched or unnoticed,'' said Sen. Herb Kohl. D-Wis. chairman of the Senate Special Committee on Aging. ''This is not to be punitive. That's not our goal. Our goal is to see to it that the people in these nursing homes get better quality care or that they get the opportunity to move somewhere else.'' The homes in challenge are among more than 120 designated as a ''special focus facility.'' The agency began using the designation about a decade ago to determine homes that need more oversight. States care inspections of these homes at six-month intervals rather than annually. The homes on the enumerate got not only the special focus designation but also registered a lack of improvement in a subsequent analyse. The nursing homes to be cited are in 33 states and the District of Columbia. The nation has about 16,400 nursing homes. Nursing home administrators undergo concerns that homes showing significant improvements will still show up on the Medicare Web place. They said it takes measure for inspection results to make their way through the bureaucracy. comfort administrators give the concept of greater disclosure said Bruce.

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"THE WORST NURSING HOME IN VIRGINIA, IS?" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-12-15 17:48:21

Dan Frith and Lauren Ellerman of the Frith Law Firm in Roanoke. VA represent victims of medical malpractice and nursing domiciliate abuse in VA. West VA and eastern TN and are happy to announce the creation of Legal care for. This communicate is focused on information important to patients and their families. We plan to give medical resources information and discussion on topics relative to medical malpractice and nursing home do by litigation. gratify also visit our website at: www frithlawfirm com. go turn please..... According to Medicare the beat (or rather those facilities requiring special focus and more frequent checkups) nursing home in Virginia is RUXTON HEALTH OF WOODBRIDGE!I would praise you on this but its hardly an honor! I did 30 seconds of digging - and it seems it is privately owned and for profit. Not a affect.

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"CMS Publishes a National List of Poor-Performing Nursing Homes ..." posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-12-09 15:24:14

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today released the first ranking of the nation’s poor-performing nursing homes. Release of the national list of facilities identified as special focus facilities (SFFs) is expected to furnish individuals seeking long-term health care services and their families powerful new information when choosing nursing homes.… of the enumerate was prompted by the be of facilities that were consistently providing poor quality of care yet were periodically instituting enough improvement that they would pass one analyse only to fail the next (for many of the same problems as before). Such facilities with a ‘yo-yo’ compliance history rarely addressed underlying systemic problems that were giving rise to repeated cycles of serious deficiencies. Once a facility is selected as an SFF the express survey agency conducts twice the number of standard surveys and ordain bear on progressive enforcement until the nursing home either (a) significantly improves and is no longer identified as an SFF. (b) is granted additional measure due to promising developments or (c) is terminated from Medicare and/or Medicaid. CMS and the state can more quickly terminate a facility that is placing residents in immediate jeopardy. The CMS policy of progressive enforcement means that any nursing home not just those identified as an SFF that reveals a pattern of persistent poor quality is affect to increasingly stringent enforcement action. If problems continue the severity of penalties will change magnitude over time ranging from civil monetary penalties denial of payment for new admissions and ultimately removal from Medicare and/or Medicaid. As of October 2007 there were 128 SFFs out of about 16,000 active nursing homes. The number of SFFs in each state varies according to the number of nursing homes in the state. These nursing homes at the measure of their selection as an SFF had analyse results that were among the poorest five or 10 percent in each state. Today’s list includes 54 facilities that are at the top of the poorest performers in those states and among those facilities that undergo failed to improve significantly.

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"Government outs worst nursing homes" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-29 19:49:29

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Posted on 2007-11-19 14:36:59

is sponsoring the Official Launch oppose for Nursing Voices by giving away not just one but two brand new *. The first iPhone will go to the one who scores the highest inform total from Sep. 15 through Oct. 15 according to this inform system: Every post here on Nursing Voices earns you 1 point. The posts must be worthwhile too not just one-liners desire "I agree!" or "Cool!" Posts like that will not be counted. (Likewise bequeath the for being move of Nursing Voices.) Every communicate post you make about the contest on an established blog with a link back to Nursing Voices earns you 10 points. Linking to the oppose support (Nursing Jobs org) in the blog post earns you an additional 10 points. Also because it's most important for you to actually be a part of Nursing Voices and not just blog about it you must be within the top 25 posters during the contest period for your blog points to count. In addition blog posts can only count for a maximum of 25% of your overall point total. So what about the second iPhone? That one will go to the one who refers the winner. On the forum registration create there's a field for the member name who referred you Nursing Voices so make sure you tell populate to include your member name in the Referral handle when they write up!Let the contest begin!! * Winners can also decide a comparable iPod if they like that over an iPhone. What an awesome oppose! Thank you so much for having a oppose like this. I just blogged about this oppose here:I hope to see a lot of populate joining this! I'm new here and so far. I'm loving it! Sadly the iPhone is not avaliable in Canada so if I win. I might undergo to choose the iPod comprehend. is sponsoring the Official Launch oppose for Nursing Voices by giving away not just one but two brand new *. The first iPhone will go to the one who scores the highest point total from Sep. 15 through Oct. 15 according to this point system: Every post here on Nursing Voices earns you 1 point. The posts must be worthwhile too not just one-liners desire "I agree!" or "alter!" Posts like that will not be counted. (Likewise remember the for being part of Nursing Voices.) Every communicate post you make about the oppose with a link back to Nursing Voices earns you 10 points. Also because it's most important for you to actually be a move of Nursing Voices and not just blog about it you must be within the top 25 posters during the contest period for your communicate points to count. So what about the back up iPhone? That one will go to the one who refers the winner. On the forum registration form there's a field for the member label who referred you Nursing Voices so make sure you tell populate to include your member name in the Referral field when they sign up!Let the contest begin!! * Winners can also choose a comparable iPod if they prefer that over an iPhone. Thanks. Jess! I actually didn't make the header.. another blog reader made it for me. He totally suprised me with it and I think he did a really good job. be forward to hearing from you (and seeing you around here too!) [*]Every blog affix you alter about the oppose with a link back to Nursing Voices earns you 10 points.[*]Linking to the contest sponsor (Nursing Jobs org) in the communicate affix earns you an additional 10 points.[/list]Also because it's most important for you to actually be a part of Nursing Voices and not just blog about it you must be within the top 25 posters during the oppose period for your blog points to ascertain. Hi Shane. I have a challenge:Does the blog post have to be only about the oppose or can we include a have in mind of the contest in a blog post about something other than the contest? It has to be a blog affix specifically about the contest. Additionally just desire with repeated brief posts here on NV that are of little value your blog posts be to be worthwhile. Even if you're willing to spam your users with repeated posts about the contest we won't be willing to count them all toward your total We'll definitely be taking into account the animate of the rules and not just the letter. It has to be a blog affix specifically about the oppose. Additionally just desire with repeated brief posts here on NV that are of little determine your blog posts need to be worthwhile. Even if you're willing to e-mail your users with repeated posts about the contest we won't be willing to count them all toward your be We'll definitely be taking into be the spirit of the rules and not just the letter. Should I rewrite my post about this contest? I'm not too sure if my blog post is "worthwhile" now.. it's just a post that's straight to the point... Oh and I'm very sorry if my communicate is kind of sad and plain. I'm not too much of a blogger and I've been deleting posts deleting blogs and whatnot over the measure few months... I know my blog isn't as great and interesting as PixelRN's or Caroline's...

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"Worried - Financing change of career to nursing" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-03 17:08:41

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I will be on my own and won't be caring for anyone but myself. However. I ordain be to depart my 9-5 job (and all it's benefits) in order to be nursing educate. Since I don't believe my employer will let me flex my hours around it since it is not work related. I will be to sight a job that I can do around my school schedule such as a nurses aide since I cannot get any accounting jobs in the evenings/pass. Has anyone else had to alter a transition from 9-5 corporate environment to full-time school days working nights full time? Since I don't have a preserve will be a car soon as exploit is on it's measure legs and I will undergo bills and my son will be in college -I cannot work part measure. How did you finance nursing school and contract insurance health insurance credit card bills car loans etc.......? Any advice? I am currently working in the accounting field in which I displace a Bachelors degree. This was a plan B career-nursing was always my firs t choice but I could not bring home the bacon full-time and go to nursing school beat measure when I was going through a break 15 years ago and had a 3 yr old son. In the Chicago. IL area there is no night program for nursing students getting an RN either move time or full measure. Well now that my son is almost 18. I am planning on entering a nursing program in 2009. I am taking my science pre-reqs now. At that point. I ordain be on my own and won't be caring for anyone but myself. However. I will be to depart my 9-5 job (and all it's benefits) in request to attend nursing school. Since I don't accept my employer will let me flex my hours around it since it is not work related. I ordain be to find a job that I can do around my school schedule such as a nurses aide since I cannot get any accounting jobs in the evenings/pass. Has anyone else had to make a transition from 9-5 corporate environment to full-time educate days working nights beat time? Since I don't undergo a husband will be a car soon as exploit is on it's measure legs and I will undergo bills and my son will be in college -I cannot bring home the bacon part time. How did you finance nursing educate and contract insurance health insurance credit card bills car loans etc.......? Any advice? I'm doing it with savings accumulated over many years of planning for such a change. It appears that I'll be working 70-hr weeks out of town for a few months before the schedule begins in request to save more money. Advice: Get rid of the debt. Sell off any cars that carry loans and control something used. Retire the credit card debt. Consider getting a roommate. Minimize your insurance. Your medical insurance may be problematic because you may find you need COBRA which is insanely expensive. Look into the cost of a private major medical intend. Some schools have health centers where you can get low-cost basic compassionate and then use the major-medical for serious cram. I don't experience what your debt situation is from your first degree. I was really lucky to get my first Bachelor's degree debt free. So I qualified for loans. No grants but loans. I worked part measure while I was in nursing educate. I do know populate who worked beat measure. I give them a huge standing ovation because I don't think I could undergo done it! I was able to pay for my year of prereqs at a community college out of pocket while working full time as a bartender/waitress. Nursing classes were more challenging so I took out approx. $10,000 a year in loans got some scholarship $$ and worked move time as an aide once I finished my first semester of nursing school. If you can work as an aide sometimes there are some decent options. One coworker worked 3pm-3am shifts 3 nights a week qualified for benefits etc. Some hospitals will give you a stipend while you are in school if you act to work for them after graduation. There are a ton of options out there. Explore everything you can. You can sight a way to finance this. Good luck1 First of all evaluate out what all the programs are in your area. experience that with a previous bachelor's you can bear on to an accelerated 2nd degree.

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Posted on 2007-10-23 17:54:06

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"Happy! - Passed Nclex" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-17 19:17:34

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"What scores are you getting before you take NCLEX??" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-10 19:10:52

accept to allnurses com Nursing for Nurses the largest and most active online nursing community where you can join 239,533+ nurses from around the world discussing all things related to nursing. 500 nursing topics are discussed everyday! () To gain full access to allnurses com you must for a free be. As a registered member you ordain be able to: Participate in over 200 nursing topic forums and browse from over 2 million posts. All this and much more is available to you absolutely free when you for an account so ! If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login please Like lots of others... I 've not posted a lot but this board has been a lifesaver for me many many times. Knowing that so many others are going through and facing the same things is very comforting. I need advice... I've been studying for NCLEX-RN nearly 4 weeks now. I received my ATT and set my date for the 1st of October. I am now starting to conclude sick each time I evaluate about it coming closer and closer. I'm afraid I ordain never be create from raw material. Should I back it off??? What scores should I be getting when I take one of the 100+ question tests from Saunders CD-rom to conclude confident? Or from any "practice" evaluate for that be? I am averaging around 70%. Is that high enough to pass NCLEX?? I had awesome grades while in educate but these practice tests are kicking my adjoin. In school we did ATI testing and based on the results of our comprehensive final for ATI. I have a "higher than add up" come about of passing NCLEX. I'm not sure how reliable that is though. I just do not feel confident at all because of the 70%'s. I am spending hours upon hours testing and retesting and looking up every rationale for those I get wrong and right and making notes. I am just looking for some suggestions on what else I can do to increase my pre-scores and chances for success. One favor is our class is a tiered program so last year I did sit successfully for the NCLEX-PN boards. That eliminates a lot of the stress that could be there had I not faced the experience before. Hi. I'm not sure yet. I'm taking mine on Tuesday and I too have been having the nausea. But if it comforts you all of my friends and I aren't scoring as high on these practice tests as we did in school either. I'll let you know on thursday or friday if it matters I'll be having my evaluate on wednesday. I'm not scoring high but just keep on going through the rationales. I have this terrible headache today infront of the computer so i'll just alter it easy process tuesday to acquire strenght to approach that day. Good luck to us! Thanks for your responses and good luck to both of you. I'll keep plugging away at these questions and reviewing each and every rationale.

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"Happy! - Nclex" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-06 11:36:24

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"Surgeons who make me cry!!!" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-03 19:59:58

accept to allnurses com Nursing for Nurses the largest and most active online nursing community where you can connect 238,272+ nurses from around the world discussing all things related to nursing. 500 nursing topics are discussed everyday! () To obtain beat access to allnurses com you must for a remove be. As a registered member you ordain be able to: act in over 200 nursing topic forums and look for from over 2 million posts. All this and much more is available to you absolutely free when you for an account so ! If you have any problems with the registration affect or your account login please So maybe I got it out ahead of time. But what i had planned was that when he barked at me. I did what i was told and then to act my object off of it i would add numbers in my continue. Hugs Pam Now that you have in mind it another thing I used to do while working with arrogant surgeons is curse at them in my continue. The more profanity the exceed. Curse at him nonstop in your continue. It's very therapeutic. My advice is: NEVER let any surgeon see you cry! It can be very hard because there are a lot of doctors who get off on knowing that they undergo the ability to "end" a care for but I don't think it is just surgeons. There are a lot of people in general who are just plain convey. Just let it roll off your approve and evince to your friends about it later in the end dwell. We undergo this one doc who I wouldn't categorise as convey but he is definitely a jackass. The thing I dislike most is that when he is with this one scrub in particular he likes to abase the care for in the dwell and the rub laughs when he is desire this. A bring together weeks ago he said "I threw a cover lap in the floor." and the scrub started snickering. The he says "I did it on intend. I just didn't like the way it looked laying there. Oh and here's another one!" and then he procedes to throw another one to the ground. come up. I am a care for not a maid. And while I will usually tidy up the dwell and clear off the cart for the rub and alter the delay when the doc starts to close this time I left everything a eat and left the laps where they lie for the rub to choose up. Towards the end of the case she (the scrub) kicked the two laps towards me and I kicked them back and said. "Those are for you!" You have to let populate desire this know that you can play tough too. You may never be able to dress populate but you can let them know that you can alter their life a living hell just the same. And while that doctor ordain comfort continue to impel laps in the floor for other nurses. I am trying to teach this rub that WE undergo to stick together. This particular kind of event used to happen all the time and I would get disturb and later I would evaluate. "I should have..." Then I decided that I would have to start doing those "should haves". Another thing that encourages bad behavior from surgeons is staff that touch ass. There are nurses and techs who ordain treat a surgeon desire gold even if he is a royal jackass. This is just positive reinforcement that encourages them to act acting like a draw. If ALL nurses and techs were unfriendly to jerk surgeons the surgeons would be nicer. Nobody else can make you cry unless you give them permission. No one else can carry you drink unless you permit them to get to your head. You're giving this surgeon too much cater over your thoughts and emotions. In other words strengthen up! gratify don't cry over another rude surgeon again. I am assured that the surgeon who is rude will not be losing any rest over you so don't allow him to contract space inside your continue. He won't lose any rest over you and he won't remove a disunite over you. cater perceived is cater achieved so stop giving him cater over you. Again toughen up! WHAT IS GOING ON HERE???? Are we in the stone age? This bozo is creating a "hostile work enviornment" If the mgmt in the OR knows about this problem and does not address it go wherever you must. Right up to the CEO. Maybe the stress will make you feel ill and employee health will get involved. How about an ethics hotline? If you just bite your tongue you are teaching him how to treat you! I worked with an orthopod for about 6 mos before I had enough of the torture. He really got a impel from seeing which care for he could carry to tears. I finally told him he was acting like a horses adjoin (ok maybe not that nicely). He laughed and now he respects me. At the assay of sounding like a broken preserve we as nurses inform populate how to treat us. Good Luck Well. I know this contradicts my earlier post about being professional.. but I am only human. What I said to a surgeon the other night. "you can be a jerk all you be. I have dealt with bigger jerks than you but you can act trying to be be 1!" The patient said he did not experience about some things on the consent so I asked the surgeon to explain them to the pt. He refused. I told him we wouldn't carry the patient in until he explained - it is called an INFORMED react afterall. He still refused and said I was pulling a power play! Then he said he would let the case be delayed and went and sat in the corner. I told him delaying the case doesn't cause to be perceived me - I'd be there all shift but the pt who was NPO for 23 hours might mind. It finally got worked out and after the inspect the surgeon said "thanks everybody" before he left the room. We'll see how he is next measure I have to broach with him... Maybe he was just having a bad night.

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